(March 8, 2015 at 9:25 am)Aractus Wrote: Listen to yourself ... "If ... the world is screwed." The world will not be screwed, we know it's endured temperatures much higher than present temperatures in the past, and for that matter much higher than tempreatures are projected to reach over the next century. The world will still be here, and humans will still be able to survive here even if there's more desertification, higher sea levels, higher temperatures, etc. The world will still be here, and it'll be here for millions of years to come.
I'm not so sure about that. It think it took planktons a few million years to prpare the atmosphere in such a way that animals cold survive on the surface.